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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04
HORRIBLE DEATH.
A Woman Burned with Her Baby In Mid

A Woman Burned with Her Baby In Mid
Air.
At an early hour the other morning fire
was discovered In the bakery OF Chris
Hehen at 3, 1855 Archer avenue, Chicago, a
three-story and basement brick tenement.
little little later 1t was discovered that
several families lived In the building, and
were either dead or dying from the effects
OF the smoke and heat. The police and
fremen did effective work and removed IL
people.
Ii was then discovered that Mrs. Nelson
Trugo and her 2-year-old babe remained
In the building and were unable to get
out. The police and iremen had rescued
her husband and four eldest children, but
she was In some manner neglected. Left
with her 2-year-old baby, Mary, the poor
woman res0rtcd To the window. A fire.
man saw her and plunging back through
the smoke, he returned to her chamber.
All escape by the rear with such burden
as woman and child was impossible lie
thought Of the BEDFORD and, tearing il
out, bound the woman and her baby with
1t and pushed them through the window.
lie paid out the rope until from the heat
and smoke he was ready to fall to the
floor, when he fastened the upper end to
the bedpOst and fed. Far from accom-
plishing his gallant purpose, he had but
too surely compassed the destruction of
those he sought to save His rope was
too short, and instead of dropping the
woman and child To the ground or within
reach of those below he had suspended
them In front Of first floor win
dow, from which fire poured as from a
furnace door. She swung there, ten or
twelve feet from the ground, writhing,
shrieking, struggling as the fire swept off
her garments, actually broiling alive with
the baby in her arms. BY the most singu-
lar fatality the flames which were destroy
ing her left the rope intact. 1t became a
necessity, If not to save the woman, TO
at least remove the revolving sight This
duty was assumed by Capt William II.
Cowan. Selling ladder, he threw it up
to the blazing window and with an ak
mounted and stood on its blazing rung.
He deliberately entered the flames, and as
they encircled him from helmet to boots
he struck at the rope. He could not see
and struck with Inaccurate aim. Once,
twice, as the clothing fell from him, he
struck in vain At the third stroke the
blade cut the rope. simultaneously the
burning ladder broke and the three blazing
human beings fell to the ground The
baby was already dead, the mother died
few days later, and the captain lies at his
home in what is thought to be his death
agonies.
Two bakers, Essen and Ansbtcher, who
are believed to be responsible for the neg
lect in the bakery which caused the fire.
have been arrested. The police say the
pair had become drowsy and drunk and
instead of watching the stove fell into
stupor, from which they only awakened
when they and the tenants above were at
the mercy of the flames.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04
-Four Persons Killed.

AS the train on the s. V. 81 st. l.. rail-
road which leaves Lakeyiew about Z p. m.
reached the first crossing east of Lakeview
the other morning, the engine struck a
double wagon in which two men and Miss
Hattie Shaver and Miss Reynolds were
seated. They were thrown over 100 feet
and instantly killed. Fannie Shaver, a
little sister of Hattie Shaver, was seriously,
and it Is thought fatally, injured. Charles
Whitbeck was seriously and perhaps fatally
injured. Fred Hatch escaped with few
slight bruises.
The wagon was scattered along the track
for several rods. The latest advices, not
received from the railroad company. but
from outside parties, show that the team
ster was wholly at fault, and that the COM
pany is blameless. The horses had crossed
the track before the wagon was struck.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04
Another Railroad Tragedy.

A friChtful accident occurred on the
Hooksett branch of the Concord railroad
near Concord, y. H.. the other afternoon.
The up accommodation passenger train
was reported nine minutes late and com
ing by way of the Suncook branch. A
mixed train from Pittsfield was on time
and started south from Suncook for Hook
sett. The train was on the siding a short
distance from Hooksett where the pas
senger train. by reason Of misplaced
switch. ran upon the siding and crashed
Into the locomotive of the mixed train.
Both locomotives we e badly wrecked as
were the baggage and mail car of the pas
senger train, and many of the freight cars
on the mixed train. The engineer and
fir man of both trains had time to jump
and escaped serious injury. Four pas
sengers were killed.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04
Enough to Cause Insanity.

Charles II. Reed, one of the law ers
who defended Guiteau, attempted suicide
the other morning by jumping into the
North river in New York from ferry
boat. He was rescued by police officer
and taken to Chambers street hospital.
Reed was subsequently arraigned at the
Tombs police court He said he was
drunk when he jumped into the river and
did not know what he was doing He had
lost his property and was reduced to pow
erty. lie was committed t. the care of
the commissioners of charities and cor.
rections to be examined as to his sanity.
At one time Reed was promising lawyer.
but from the time he undertook the defense
of Guiteau he has not prospered.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04
Many Lives Lost.

The Pacific Mail steamer City of Rio de
Janeiro from Hong Kong brings advices Of
July and Yokohama news of July Q. BY
the loss of the steamer Sir John Lawrence
In the bay of Bengal 500 lives were lost,
mainly pilgrims of the best families In
Bengal. From the 21st to the Goth of May
cyclone ragged in the bay Of Bengal with
disastrous results toshipping and attended
with great loss of life. The passengers Of
the Sir John Lawre nee were mainly wom-
en- going on pilgrimage to the famous
temple Of Jaganath at Punt. There Is
scarcely native family in Calcutta which
does not bemoan the loss of a relative by
the disaster
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04
suits to be Dropped.

The secretary Of the interior, In letter
to the encouragement. recommends that
the several suits now pending against
prominent cattle companies of New Next
CO for erecting and maintaining unlawful
fences on the public domain, he discon-
tinued upon payment by defendants of all
costs incident thereto. This request Is
made upon the assurance that the fences
complained against have been removed
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04
Highland swIndIe.

A combination of land spectators re-
Gently bought large amounts of very poor
land in the vicinity of Dodge City, Kas.
They have presented to President Cleve-
land immense petitions purporting to be
signed by settlers asking that the land
Offices Of the district be removed to that
place, expecting thereby to get up boom.
They have twice as many names on the
petitions as there are legal voters In the
district.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04
A Donation to Veterans.

Joseph w. Drexel, the New York bank
er, has written Commander-in-Chief Fair
child letter, rendering free of expense
through him to the surviving union SOL
diers Of the late war, In perpetuity, the
cottage on Mt. McGregor in which U. s.
Grant died. There is no stipulation as to
how it shall be used but it is specified
that the trustees shall consist of the com
mander-in-chief Of the grand army, the
president Of Mt McGregor railway, and
such other persons as Mr.. Drexel may
designate.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04
Costly Legislation.

The legislature of 1885 prohibited the
manufacture of oleomargarine, and in
compliance with that law the Northwest
ern manufacturing company had its
machinery confscated by the sheriff of
Wayne county. But the law further pro-
vided that company whose plant was
destroyed might bring action against the
state and recover damages, That part
was declared unconstitutional and the re-
cent legislature passed a joint resolution
reimbursing the Northwestern for its loss
The board of state auditors has named the
loss at 81, 345 go and allowed the claim.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04
Score Another for Detroit.

Peter w. Bursha, well-known loco
motive engineer on the Bay City division
of the Michigan Central road, whose home
Is i'm Detroit, was shot and instantly killed
by r. W. Landon, young man about 20
years of age. Landon had for some
months boarded at Bursha's home, and
alleged intimacy with Mrs. Bursha led to
the shooting Landon immediately gave
himself up, and claims that he was Justi-
fed in killing Bursha.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04
Came to America.

George Bidwell, who was sentenced to
life Imprisonment for forging bank of Eng
land notes, has been released from con-
finement on the ground OF ill-health. He
sailed at once for New York.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04

The supreme court in Washington
Territory has decided that the conviction
of prisoner by jury composed of
women was illegal. This is decided
setback for the advocates of the doctrine
that women should perform all the
political and social functions of man.
Probably the prisoners counsel con-
tended that his clients guilt or inno-
cence had not been passed on by jury
of his peers.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04

The Rev. George c. Haddock, the
martyr of prohibition, who was murder
ed at Sioux City, is buried at Racine,
Wis, and it is said that his grave is
shamefully neglected, not even wooden
slab marking his last resting place.
The movement which was started
shortly after his murder to raise fund
for the erection of the monument APP
pears to have collapsed.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04
$4,000.

Says gentleman who lives in British
Columbia: THE way the Canadian
Pacific railroad is doing now is positive
ly laughable from an economic point
of view. They are carrying goods from
the United States through Canada into
the United States, paying transportation
at both ends and carrying them over
their own line for virtually nothing
This may be building up an empire, ,
but it is certainly not building up a
road
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04

A Philadelphia publisher says the re-
vised Bible has fallen fiat. Hundreds
of thousands Of copies remain on the
shelves, and the people will not have
them at any price. They stick to the
Bible of their fathers and mothers" II
the boys and girls do that, and take it
as the "man of their counsel" they
will be all right
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04
Interstate Commerce Decisions.

The Interstate commerce commission
has rendered decision i'm the case brought
against the Grand Trunk railroad by one
Louis harrison, because that road would
not sell him 1,000-mile ticket AT the price
paid by commercial travellers, and the
Michigan Central complains that the
Grand Trunk was selling to commercial
travellers at lower rates than to the public
generally. The opinion is as follows:
Common carriers may continue the issu
ance Of mileage passenger tickets, the
charges for which must be reasonable and
just and free from unjust discrimination
or unreasonable preference. Persons be-
longing to the class known as commercial
travellers are not privileged to ride over
railroads at lower rates than are paid 10y
other persons. Whatever reasonable rates
commercial travellers are made Opay other
travellers may be made To pay. TO charge
one more than the other is unjust discrim-
nation, and this is true whether tickets
issued are mileage tickets or in some other
form. The refusal of the defendant, the
Chicago Il Grand Trunk railway company,
10 sell the complainant, harrison, a thous-
and-mie ticket for $50, the price at which
said company was selling such tickets to
commercial travellers, and the neglect to
PUBLISH IdltS dt WHICH the utlcliudnl WIS
Offering to sell mileage tickets, were alike
in conflict with the 'act TO regulate COM
merce."
The case of the st. Louis wholesale
grocers against the Missouri Pacific EN-
bodies complaint that while commuta-
ton tickets are sold at rates which would
amount to not more than SIS for thous-
and miles, the thousand-mile tickets upon
which commercial travellers travel are not
sold for less than S25. The commission is
also asked to order and direct that dis
elimination be made in favor OF CONNER
cial travellers, in short that thousapd-mile
tickle 3 be sold TO them at lower rates than
to others. In respect to the order il is re-
quested to make in favor Of commercial
travellers the opinion says:
The commission would hardly be willing
to make such an order in any case, how
ever urgent the circumstances might APP
pear to be. But in respect to this matter
we are agreed that the entire policy and
spirit OF the law are against 1t, and that
when mileage tickets, as distinguished
from trip tickets, are issued, they should
be sold to all impartially and on the same
terms.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04

The G is wide-awake physician In
Australia who advertises that he will
pay one-half the funeral expenses in
cases where he Is not successful.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04

John Sherman's house is books eve.
rywhere. The most interesting hook in
this collection, which includes 10000
indexed letters, is collection of over
1000 letters from Tecumseh to John
when the former was a 14-year old ca
Diet at West Point. 1897.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04

Says gentleman now in Los Angeles:
Land Immediately outside the city
limits is worth from $1,000, Sl,700 to
$4,000 per acre, In Pasadena it is
worth from $1,000 to So. 900; at San
Gabriel from $1,000 to $1,000, and at
Orange, Monoravia, Pomona and other
comparatively well settled places,
prices are but slightly lower. On Spring
and Main streets-the two principal
business streets of the city-the land is
worth from $1,000 to $1,000 per foot
front, and the rents received from the
property FULLY justify the value. To
give you an idea of the population and
wealth pouring in here, | am told upon
good authority that the four banks of
the city of Los Angeles hold nearly
SlS,000,00O of deposits belonging to
people who have recently acquired res
idence here. In Pasadena the three
banks vaults contain over $1,CC0.00o
of deposits, and the whole township
does not embrace more than 5000
souls"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04
INTERNAL REVENUE.
Total Collections for the Last Fiscal \


Hon. Jos. S. Miller, commissioner of
internal revenue, has submitted to Secre-
tary Falrchild preliminary resort of the
operations of that service during the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1857. The total col
lections from all sources of internal rev
enue for the fiscal year just ended were
Sis, S35, 757. This Is 1882, SSS more
than the collections for the previous fiscal
year. The cost of collection was about
Si,075, 900. During the year the offices of
the several collectors of internal revenue
have been examined as frequently as pos
sible, and the reports received indicate q
very generally satisfactory condition of the
internal revenue service. The receipts
from the different objects of taxation, as
compared with the receipts for the previ-
Gus year were as follows: Spirits, $685.
500, 322, decrease of S3, 262, 044; tobacco
$50, los, 067, an increase of 81, 200, 700; fer
mented liquors, S21, 922, 1877, an increase
of 81, 2i5, 456; Oleomargarine, S723, 9is, all
increase; banks and bankers, S4,2SS,
all Increases; miscellaneous, S247,
945, an increase of S21, 435. The quant-
ties of distilled spirits, fermented liquors.
manufactured tobacco, snuff, cigars and
cigarettes, on which tax was paid during
the year, were as follows: Spirits dis
titled from grapes, apples and peaches,
l,2l1, 532 gallons, decrease of 344, 462;
spirits distilled from other materials, 66,
1876, $50 gallons, decrease of 5,126, sos;
number of cigars, 3,7ss, S05, 443, an in
crease of 277,406,955; number of cigar
cites, 1854, 505, 200, an increase of 213, =
543, $50; snuff 6,56l,S73 pounds, an in
crease. of 395, 500; tobacco 1919, 937, GAS
pounds, an increase of IA, 511, 455; ferment-
ed liquors, 90, 12l, $50 barrels. an increase
of 2,410,20 barrels. The above figures
indicate decrease in the consumption of
spirituOus liquors and corresponding in
crease in the consumption of malt liquors.
OF the amount of internal revenue re-
ceipts Michigan has contributed the hand
some sum of 81, 60l, 8O7.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04

THIS GOOD OLD STANDBY
accomplshes for everybody exactly what is claimed
forit One of the for the great popularity Of
the Mustang Eminent is found in its universal
applicability. Everybody needs such medicine.
Tho Lumberman needs 1t IN case of accident.
The Housewife needs 1t for general family use.
The CannIer needs II for his teams and his men.
Tho Mechanic needs It always on his work
bench.
The Miner needs II in case OF emergency
The Pioneer needsit-can't get along without -.
The Farmer needs 1t in his house. his stable.
and his stock yard
The Steamboat man or the Boatmnn needs
1t in liberal supply ahoat and ashore.
The Horse fnncier needs tilt is his best
friend and safest reliance.
The Stock-growcr needs it-it Will save him
thousands Of dollars and n world of trouble.
The Railroad man needs IL and will need II so
long his life is round OF accidents and dangers
The Baclkwoodsman needs II. There is moth
ing like IL antidote for the dangers to life,
limb and comfort which surround the pioneer.
The Merchant needs It about his store among
his employees. Accidents will happen, and when
these come the Mustang Eminent is wanted at once
Keep n Bottle in the House. IT'S the best of
economy.
Keep n Bottle I'm the Factory. It's immediate
in of accident pain and loss Of wages
Keep n Bottle Always I'm tho Stable for
use when wanted.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04

In Our Little Men and Women for
August we learn that village of ants
numbers sometimes half a million and
that all the inhabitants not only know
one another when they meet on the
street, but remember one another for
months. A naturalist found that out
by catching some and keeping them
four months and then putting them back
among their old neighbors. Their
friends were so glad to see them that
they actually took them up and caressed
and carried them in their arms! Ants
talk with their horns. That is, they
toss their horns and understand one
another. Little folks have the advant-
age nowadays of picking up great
deal of knowledge in learning to read.
That is really what this magazine is for
fun and facts together. You can get
a specimen copy of it by sending five
cents to d. Lothrop company, Roston,
According to "The Oil City Derrick
there are more than $4,000 miles of
tubing used in the oil wells of Pennsyl-
vania. At Is cents foot this tubing
would cost S29, 100000. 1t would re-
quire, allowing 400 feet to the well,
3l,500,000 OF 5 5-S casing, which, at so
cents per foot, would amount to $751;
100000. Allowing an average Of 100
feet of drive pipe to well it would
require 100000 feet and cost at 81 40
per foot, $10,500.00O. 1t would take
S7,000,000 worth of lumber to build the
rigs, and the machinery and boilers
necessary would cost $1,000, 900 more,
making a grand aggregate of $780,
CSC. 900.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04
Says the manager of the Oregon I'm

Says the manager of the Oregon I'm
migration Bureau: II never knew i'm
migration to Washington Territory and
Oregon to be as heavy as at the presen
time. The Pacific coast boom began in
California, and is extending north to
the international line. The class of
people who are taking up land in the
north are better than the average of
past seasons. They all have money;
not fortunes, but sufficient to keep
them independent of the farm for two
years or more. There are no pauper
foreigners among them to make them
selves burden. Most of the people
who go north engage in stock-raising or
dairy-farming. ,Washinton Territory
is considered unapproachable as dairy
farming country, and the government
and railroad lands are being taken up
rapidly, The completion of the Cali
fornia and Oregon line will assist great
ly in populating northern California
and southern Oregon, and will institute
a boom that will have no precedent"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-16
LEGAL NOTICE.
In the Probate Court in and for Salt LAKE
County, Territory of Utah.

In the Probate Court In and for Salt LAKE
County, Territory of Utah.
In the Matter of the Estate, of Mary N.
/, Driscot, deceased.
Order appointing time and place for settle
ment of final account and to hear petition
for distribution, ifts3 ESQ Clst5S'
ON READING AND FILING THE PETI-
~ ton of Con DriscOl, administrator of
the estate of Mary N .Driscol, deceased, set.
ting forth that he has filed his final account
of his administration upon said estate in
this Court; that all the debts and expenses
have been fully paid, and that portion of
heirs of said deceased, and praying among
other things for an order allowing said final
account and of distribution of the residue of
said estate among the persons entitled.
1t is ordered that all persons interested in
the estate of the said Mary N. Driscol, de
ceased, be and appear before the Probate
Court of the County of Salt Lake, at the
Court Room of said Court. in the County
Court House, on the second day of Septem-
Der, 1887, at 10 O'Clock m, then and there
fDal account and of distribution should not
be made of the residue of said estate among
the heirs and devisees of the said Mary n.
Driscol, deceased, according to law.
1t is further ordered that the Clerk cause
copies of this order to be posted In three
published in the SALT LAKE HERALD, a
newspaper printed and circulated in Salt
Lake County, three weeks successfully prior
to said I'd day of September, 1887.
ELIAS A. SMITH,
Probate Judge.
Dated August 5th. 1887.
1t coHE2T OF Of SALT HI4H lake, IS.
1. John C. Cutler Clerk of the Probate
Court in and for the County of Salt Lake, in
the Territory of Utah, do hereby certify that
the foregoing is full, true and correct copy
of order appointing time and place for set
Element of final account and for distribution
in the matter of the estate of Mary n. Dris-
col, as appears of record in my Office.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set
,sp.,I my hand and affixed The seal of
''hAN' said Court, this 5th day of August,
A. D. 1887.
JOHN C. CUTLER,
Probate Clerk.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-16
PULLMAN
BUFFET & SLEEPING CARS
On sll Through Passenger Trains,

&R-The Only Line from Salt Lake~S8A
ETF-City Running SLEEPING CARSON
EN-FREE fer the use OF Passengers On
N-hoiding Second Glass and Emi--N
RN-grapt Tickets. -
THE ATLANTIC EXPRESS
Leaves Ogden daily at 40 a m. leaves Salt
Lake City daily at Ills am. Direct coRnec-
zion is made at Pueblo and Denver for
Omaha, Kansas City and all points East.
THE PACIFIC EXPRESS
arrives in Salt Lake City from the East at
Ass pm. and leaves for ogden at 4.4e p m,
making connection with the Central Pacific
or the West.
LOCAL TRAINS
cave Salt Lake City for Bingham and Alta
aE 10 am; for Ogden, at SIS am. and
Z 20 pm for SpIingviile, at go pm.
Arrive at Salt Lake City from Bingham and
Alta at AS pm; from Ogden at 11.05 am.
and 80 pm; from Spring vile, at SIS a m
Tickets for all points East and West can be
,rFrchased at the Depot Office and City
Tioket Office, White House Corner, Salt Lake
CITY.
j. HI. BEN NET,
Gen. Pass, and T'k't Ag't
D. G. DODGE, Gent Manager.
W. Il. BANCROFT GenI supt
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-16
SaltLake & Western
RAILW WAY.
On an after
Saturday, Dec. 2Oth, 1885
Trains Will run as follows:

Connects with Utah Central train lesvin
Salt AXE at 7.40 am.
Connects with Utah Central rrain Grrty
ing at Salt Lake at $40 pm.
+ Stop only upon signals.
". W. RTTER,
ma "a Supt